>>>>> "P" == Pit Capitain <pit / capitain.de> writes:

P> Why do you need $. to start from 0 when reading from DATA? What is it that 
P> you're trying to do?

 Well try this

 $. = DATA.lineno = 0

P> Personally, I think it shouldn't be allowed to change the $. variable at all. 
 probably

>> 4. In Perl it works as (I) expected. But that may be a reason to do 
>> things differently, of course.

 very good reason :-)


Guy Decoux